Integrated Practice Publications

This document, Integrated Project Delivery: An Updated Working Definition, contains the recommendations of the AIA California Council’s Definitions Committee of the Integrated Project Delivery Task Force. To date, we are aware of over 200 projects that use multi-party contracts to incentivize and reward their teams in project execution, with likely 100s or even 1,000s that use the principles of Integrated Project Delivery to improve project outcomes.

Downloaded more than 35,000 times, the guide begins with introductory material about the principles of IPD and points of consideration in a generic sense, moves through a study of implementation of IPD and culminates with discussion of application of general IPD principles within the specific framework of other common delivery methods.

The AIA believes that all industry-supporting software must facilitate, not inhibit, project planning, design, construction, commissioning and lifecycle management. Learn more about the AIA's position and what it means for practice.

Learn more about the AIA's belief that project delivery processses can best be achieved through industry-wide adoption of approaches to project delivery characterized by early and regular involvement of owners, architects, constructors, fabricators and end user/operators in an environment of effective collaboration, mutually defined goals and information sharing.

In November 2011, the AIA issued a survey to nearly 10,000 members to explore member understanding of Integrated Project Delivery. Results suggest that 84% of AIA members are aware of IPD in the marketplace, and 13% have engaged in IPD as a contractual model. Download the full report for additional statistics.

Intended to improve understanding for the mutual benefit of owners and the design and construction community, the AIA-AGC Joint Committee primer is primarily addressed to owners who are unfamiliar with the various ways of procuring design and construction services.

This SmartMarket Report provides insight into the role that prefabrication/modularization can have on improving productivity in construction—including impacts on project schedule, costs, safety, quality and waste reduction.

Produced in collaboration with prominent industry organizations, this SmartMarket Report contains market research data on how BIM is being used for green projects and what the key drivers and obstacles are to further adoption.

This report is based on two fundamental principles: that to be effective, any form of compensation must, first, be fair to all, and second, must motivate appropriate behaviors. It is an excellent resource for Owners, or any team member, interested in exploring compensation models for projects involving new methodologies.

A joint effort of NASFA, COAA, APPA, AGC and AIA, this document offers a tiered approach to achieving collaboration and explores IPD as both a philosophy (without a multi-party contract) and a contractually-based project delivery method.

Without endorsing the processes followed, this document represents the lessons and experiences of industry leaders and will provide project teams with useful insight into some of the opportunities and challenges facing the AECO industry as it adopts IPD.

Acknowledging these forces and trends, the 3xPT Strategy Group conducted a workshop on IPD in July, 2007. The workshop defined guidelines for integrated project delivery approaches and improved industry outcomes, looking through the lens of four project delivery models (design-bid-build, design-build, construction management at risk, and project alliance).

This SmartMarket Report provides insight into the interoperability of software applications and platforms serving the building community, which is of key importance to the $1 trillion U.S. construction market, as interoperability costs add 3.1% to a typical project budget.

The purpose of the guide is to provide recommendations to the capital facilities industry on techniques and standards to improve the quality and reduce the cost of information handovers throughout the capital facility life cycle.

Integrated Practice Presentations

These notes were prepared for presentation at the AIA Convention delivered on May 18, 2012 in a session titled “Integrated Project Delivery and The Future of Architects”. Co-presenters included Markku Allison, AIA, William Carpenter, FAIA and AIA Board Member, and Betsy Del Monte, AIA of the Beck Group.

Download eight featured presentations from the 2007 Integrated Practice Pre-Convention Conference held in San Antonio on May 2, 2007. Topics include BIM for Engineering, Enhancing Pre-Design Services and case studies.

About CIP

The The AIA Center for Integrated Practice (CIP) is the AIA's online clearinghouse that contains useful reports, relevant industry events, contractual information, podcasts and discussion forums necessary to lead the industry towad collaborative design practices. The purpose of the CIP is to help remove barriers to collaboration, serve as a collector and conductor of project delivery outcomes and research, and develop resources and tools for AIA members, the profession, and the public.

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Betsy del Monte, FAIA, outlines how integrated project delivery distinguishes itself from other delivery methods, what IPD means for sustainability, and how early conversations with sub-contractors can add substantial value to a project.

Following up on his 2006 essay titled "Applications in Engineering," Joe Burns notes that we must progress beyond the fundamentals we have been learning and practicing in BIM and move to addressing cultural issues.

With new factors continuing to be added to the decision making process the design world is getting exponentially more complex. Onuma now poses the question, "how do we grasp and hold all this complexity in a way that we can make those decisions?"

Cheng expresses that her 2006 essay, "Suggestions for an Integrative Education," remains quite valid, suggesting that as the tools have become more sophisticated, and the students become more facile, critical thinking and objective judgment become more vital.

Find out why Jonassen believes the most significant improvement with respect to the tools and techniques participants must embrace in order to implement IPD effectively has been with building information modeling (BIM).

This podcast examines what the authors of the essay "Roadmap to Integration" characterize as the ultimate design challenge: integration between nature and human nature, between the built and natural environments and also technology.

Interviewer Robert Smith asks Thom Mayne, FAIA, to revisit the "Change or Perish" idea, first published in the 2006 Report on Integrated Practice. Discover why Mayne still feels the same way about the challenges facing the architectural profession today.